Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Everybody has gone home. A few hours ago, this was a pretty bumping party. Democrats really felt like they had a shot here tonight. It the last 48 hours of this race, everything seemed to be breaking their way. The republican candidate stumbled into a gaffe about Franklin County The Night Before the election started. Their candidate had been all over the place in national and local media. They felt like they were fighting out the la
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. We expect those also break democratic enough to erase a 1754 lead . No, but could it be enough to cut into that 754 enough that baldersons advantage which is 0. 9 right now over oconnor if that ends up at 0. 5 or less, state law says guess what, we got to have a a recount here. You could potentially, i wouldnt say its the likeliest scenario but you could see that happening. There are also 5048 what they are calling uncounted absentee ballots, that were mailed out to voters in some cases weeks ago and they havent been mailed back. A lot of them probably arent going to be mailed back. Some of them a small number probably military ballots maybe still making their way. Some of them probably a small number are voters you had to have them postmarked yesterday. If they sent it out yesterday, it still comes in, that vote probably still going to be
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we have to elect troy. well, president donald trump at a rally on saturday for troy balderson, republican candidate in that special election in ohio s 12th district tonight. the race as we ve been telling you, we are currently saying too close to call. balderson leading democrat danny o connor by less than a percentage point. voters will not learn the final vote till all the absentee and provisional votes are counted. maybe the reason we have such suspense, maybe there s a recount as mandate bid state law. the president has already declared victory. earlier tonight he tweeted when i decided to go to ohio for troy badder son, he was down 64-36. that was not good. after my speech on saturday night, there was a big turn for the better. he wins a great victory during a tough type of the year for voting. he will win big in november followed by another tweeting congratulations to troy badder son on a great win in ohio.
voting. he will win big in november followed by another tweeting congratulations to troy badder son on a great win in ohio. balderson is not the only candidate trump s endorsement appears to be helping. he tweeted his support for chris kovach in kansas s republican primary for governor. here s the result, kobach leading by 952 votes, jeff colyer, that s the incumbent republican governor, he had been the lieutenant governor, sam brownback left colyer takes over sort of an unelected as governor at least, here s the key though to keep in mind. the outstanding vote in kansas is almost all in johnson county. we talk about those more upscale suburbs, college changed all that stuff. we talked about them in ohio right outside kansas city. colyer leading by 13 points. certainly on paper you look and